Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Jun. 6, 2015
Surprise. A client's secrets can still be secret when they're on the Internet
A new ethics opinion from the State Bar says client confidences are more than privileged communication, and lawyers must keep the secret however they learn them - even those of former clients.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A secret between an attorney and a client is different from a secret between other
people. It might not even be what most people would call a secret.
For a lawyer, a client confidence is any information the lawyer learns about the client
- including publicly available information - that could be "embarrassing or detr...
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